Chapter V - Governing Bodies

Section I - General provisions

Article 35

1- The governing bodies of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL are as follows:
   a) The General Assembly ('Assembleia Geral'), the respective Bureau ('respectiva Mesa') and its President;
   b) The Board ('Conselho Directive');
   c) The Fiscal and Disciplinary Council ('Conselho Fiscal and Disciplinar');
   d) The Leonino Council ('Conselho Leonino').
2- Relative members are considered, for purposes of the present statues, title holders ('titulares') or members ('membros') of the governing bodies indicated in the anterior provision, with the exception of members ('Sócios') that form the General Assembly.
3- There will also be a Commission of Remunerations, composed of: the President of the Bureau of the General, that will preside; the President of the Board; and the President of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council that will establish the salaries of the members of the Executive Commission and define the remuneration policy of the Club, as far as is legally possible, towards its corporate affiliates.

Article 36

1- Members of governing bodies must comply with and enforce the statues and regulations of the Club and exercise their respective functions with the highest level of dedication and exemplary civic and moral behaviour.
2- Members of governing bodies are jointly responsible for deliberations, with the exception of when recorded with a vote of disharmony ('discordância'), registered by the act of meeting where deliberations are made, or by assisting the functionality of such a meeting in cases of proved absence.
3- The responsibility referred to in the anterior number shall cease as soon as the General Assembly approves relative deliberations, except if such a decision has been taken in malice or fraud.
4- Should the Club be required to compensate for prejudices resulting from joint or isolated deliberations made by governing bodies that have/are acting in violation of the law of the statutes, the Club may exercise the right of redress against respective members.
5- The President of the General Assembly may take the necessary measures and executions of the provisions of the anterior paragraph by convening an extraordinary union of the General Assembly, where the respective proposal will be the subject to the vote of the General Assembly..

Article 37

1 - The mandate of title holders of governing bodies is for four years.
2- Without prejudice to the regime fixed in the present statutes for the cases of early ceasing of mandate, the title holders of governing bodies shall remain in office until the proclamation of their successors.
3- In case of early elections, the associated year will occur as a full year of mandate of the incumbent, unless elections are held during the first of June and the thirty first of July..

Article 38

1 - Mandate is ceased in the case of death, physical impossibility, loss of the quantifier as member, loss of mandate in the cases of the provisions in number 2 of article 33 and in number 4 of article 34, situation of incompatibility, resignation or dismissal.
2- In addition to the situations expressly provided for in these statutes, other cases that constitute the termination of mandate of all title holders of respective governing bodies are:
   a) When the Board interrupts ('cessação') the mandate of the majority of its elected members;
   b) When the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council interrupts the mandate of the majority of its elected members, after calling the alternatives, if they exist, to effect;
   c) When the Bureau of the Assembly General interrupts the mandate of the respective President and Vice-President;
   d) When the Leonino Council interrupts the mandate of the majority of its elected members in terms of provision c) of number 1 of article 62..

Article 39

1 - Except in cases provided for in these present statutes, the quality of title of a governing body of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL is incompatible with the quality of a title of another.
2- The quality of title of a governing body of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL is further still incompatible with the exercise of functions for other clubs, sporting societies or activities promoted by such bodies.
3- The incompatibility fixed by the anterior provision is excluded in the case that a sporting club, society or other activity promoted by such a body practices a medium that is not practiced or dedicated to by whatever medium of professional practice of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL or by sporting societies the Club supports or promotes, including "Satellite Clubs".
4- The quality of a title of a governing body of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL is still further incompatible with the exercise of functions for commercial societies of other sporting clubs, directly or indirectly, have founded, with the exception of those envisaged by number 3 of this article.
5- No candidate to a title of a governing body of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL is permitted if they would be determined incompatible upon election, other than cases where the candidate waves the condition that determines them incompatible upon election.
6- The supervenience of, relative to titles of governing bodies of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL, a situation of incompatibility determines automatically the loss of mandate..

Article 40

1 - Resignation is presented to the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly, except for situations in which he/she is he resignee, in which case it is presented to the president of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council.
2- The effect of resignation does not depend upon the acceptance of such presentation as set out in the above provision. The position resigned is to remain occupied until the final day of the next month to which it was presented, unless a substitution of the resignee has already been established.
3- However, if the resignation, individual or collective, constitutes cause for the interruption of mandate of all members of the body, the resignation only takes effect with the appointment of successors, with exception of those appointed by commission as noted in article 42, when the body is substituted.

Article 41

1 - The mandate of members of governing bodies is revocable, individually or collectively, in terms of the provisions of the law.
2- The revocation of mandate of members of the Board and members of the Fiscal and disciplinary Council depends upon the presence of a just cause and is subject to the deliberation of elected Assembly, which precedes the decision to call the first to effect, with indication of whom the member or members of the bodies of the club are, whose removal is to be voted on.
3- The General Assembly elections that rule on such dismissal are to be held no later than twenty one days after the decision to hold a vote on such an issue has been taken.
4- The process for dismissal is ceased in the case of resignation of the member or members in question, producing in this case a resignation of immediate effect, with the exception of that provisioned for in number 3 in the anterior article..

Article 42

1 - If there is cause for interruption of the mandate of all offices of the Board or of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council or if, there are convened any elections for whichever of these bodies that do not have candidates, it can in the first case, and should, in the second case exist a commission of management or a fiscal commission, or both, as designated by the President of the General Assembly, composed of an odd number of staff members with more than five years of uninterrupted subscription at the Club, to carry out the functions that lie respectively as functions of the Board or Fiscal and Disciplinary Council, and that will have the same powers as one or the other, conforming with the respective case.
2- In such cases, there ought to be, within a period of six months, convened an election in the General Assembly for the election of the Board, of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council or both, conforming to the relative case, which ceases the functions of the commission that existed in cause of the proclamation of those elected.

Chapter II - General Assembly

Article 43

1 - In the General Assembly, composed of those staff members in the full enjoyment of their rights and admitted for a period not less than twelve months, resides the supreme power of the Club.
2- With each decade of uninterrupted subscription, the relative staff member gains three additional votes, for the purposes of voting in General Assemblies, for the application of their convictions and for the proposing of candidatures.

Article 44

1 - It is exclusively the General Assembly that holds the power and is as in the following statutes and laws:
   a) The altering of statutes of the Club and the ensuring of their compliance;
   b) The Appointment and dismissal of members of governing bodies;
   c) Decisions about materials referred to in numbers 2 and 3 of article 6;
   d) The fixing or the altering, based upon proposal, the importance of quotas and other obligatory contributions;
   e) Decisions about exhibitions or petitions presented by governing bodies or by members and to decide on the exercise of activities and other respective qualities;
   f) Decisions about the readmission of members that have been expelled;
   g) Declaring the resources that have been brought before it;
   h) The awarding of honorary distinctions those, in statutory and regulatory terms, are within its jurisdiction;
   i) To consider and vote on the budget of receipts and expenditures, within the respective plan of activities for the relative economic year;
   j) To discuss and vote on the management report and the accounts report, and the opinion of the Fiscal Council for the relative economic year;
   l) To authorise and the realisation of loans and other operations of credit that exceed an amount twenty percent of the budget of the anterior year;
   m) To authorise the Board to take financial compromised that exceed ten percent of the ordinary budget and additional forces;
   n) To authorise, based upon the fundamental proposal of the Board, the acquisition and alienation of property and guaranties that effect property.
2- The General Assembly may delegate to the Leonino Council, for a term not superior to one year, the exercising of competencies referred in provisions l), m) and n) of number 1.
3- Except in the case of disposition in contrary to the law of the present statutes, the deliberations of the General Assembly are taken with an absolute majority of votes associated with those present; however the deliberation of the alienation or acquisition of properties or shares requires, in the least, two thirds of votes, or the same value as deliberated by the Leonino Council about the first of those mentioned materials, taken in exercise of those duties that have been delegated by the General Assembly.
4- The General Assembly may still further decide on whatever other material or issues submitted by the President of the General Assembly, by the Board or by the Fiscal and disciplinary Council.
5- The General Assembly may create commissions for the study of whatever relevant subject of/for activities of the club, constructed of members of active electoral capacity.

Article 45

The meetings of the General Assemblies are elected and can be both ordinary and extraordinary.

Article 46

1 - The General Assembly meets ordinarily four times in four years, for the elections of the respective Bureau of its President, of the Board and of the fiscal and Disciplinary Council, and to select the members in may place upon the Leonino Council.
2- The ordinary meeting of the General Assembly for elective purposes is realised during the period of the first of May and the Fifteenth (alteration approved in GA of the 29th of July 2004) of June of the year in which it should take place, in light of the respective date scheduled by the President of the General Assembly, established in terms of these statutes.

Article 47

1 - The General Assembly may meet extraordinarily for:
   a) The carrying out of elections, in the case of the verifying of the ceasing of the mandate of all of a governing body;
   b) To vote on the allocation of offices of governing bodies, under the terms provisioned for in article 41.
2- In the case of the verifying of a cause for the ceasing of mandate of all members of a governing body, the President of the General Assembly ought to convene an election for the date no later than forty five days after the occurrence of the referred cause, with the exception in case of use of the faculty provisioned for in number 1 of article 42.

Article 48

1 - The elections of the General Assemblies function without debate, they proceed only to a vote of secret ballot.
2- The functionality of the General Assemblies elections is headed by the President of the General Assembly, assisted by other members of the bureau that are representative of the lists of each competitor.
3- It is also the president that decides how many voting tables there are to be and also that indicates the respective members.
4- The General Assembly elections are realised in the headquarters of SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL, with the exception if, with invocation of relative grounds, the respective President calls for another location.
5- The General Assembly, in meeting together, may approve a regulation election.
6- The regulation that is referred to in number 5 may provide that General Assemblies are running simultaneously (but, eventually, with differences of hours of closing of polls) at the headquarters, or in another designated location, and in Supporters Clubs, pertaining in this case to the President of the General Assembly to designate delegates to work in Supporters Clubs.
7- The same regulation could further come to suppose votes of correspondence, in conditions that assure the secrecy of the same and the authenticity of ballots, by notorial or consular contact acknowledged with a signature.
8- It is to the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly to proclaim the elected, and must do so immediately after the tabulation of electoral results.
9- The proclamation involves the formal bestowal of office in the exercise of responsibilities to the proclaimed that have already been elected.

Article 49

1 - The Electing Assemblies will be convened so that, between the final day of the publication and that of the vote, not including either of the two, at least fourteen complete days and 8 complete days may run, respectively, if the vote is to elect or to dismiss.
2- The candidates are represented until the seventh day that precedes the appointed day for elections or until the first working day following that, if the seventh day is a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. 
3- The candidate will have to be proposed by members with active electoral capacity that represent, in the minimum, one thousand votes and out to come accompanied with the terms of acceptance of candidates.
4- It is the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly that admits candidates, verifying their regularity.
5- The President of the Bureau of the General Assembly can give a term of forty eight hours for the correction of whatever deficiency in the presentation of the candidates, notifying to such an effect, for whatever reason, the first proponent.

Article 50

1 - The elections of the offices of the General Assembly shall be a complete list, considering the election list that gains more votes than whatever other, with the exception of those provisioned for in numbers 3 and 4 of article 62.
2- The list for the Bureau of the General Assembly will indicate the position for each candidate proposed; the lists for the Board will indicate who are to be the candidates for presidency and vice-presidency; and the lists for the fiscal and Disciplinary Council will indicate who will be the candidate for presidency and vice-presidency.

Article 51

1 - The General Assembly convenes of ordinary function two times in a year, in the periods, and with the aims, of the following:
   a) During the month of June, or during the month of July, if the Board has just finished being elected in the term fixed in number 2 of article 46, for the approval of the budget of receipts and expenditures, prepared by the Board, within the norms prescribed in article 33 (alteration approved in GA on the 29th of July 2004);
   b) Until the day of the 20th of September (alteration approved in GA on the 29th of July 2004) of the year, for the discussing and voting on the annual accounts report of the previous year and the opinion of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council.

Article 52

1 - Extraordinarily, the General Assembly shall meet on whatever date:
   a) At the request of the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly;
   b) At the request of the Board or of the Fiscal Council;
   c) By the application of staff members, in the enjoying of their rights, with a minimum of one thousand and five hundred votes, since that a deposit in the treasury of the Club is needed to cover the inherent costs.
2- In the case of provision c), the Assembly may not convene without the presence of members that total a number of one thousand two hundred and fifty votes.

Article 53

1 - The General Assemblies will be convened by the medium of advertisements in two newspapers, and also the journal of the Club, entered with a minimum of eight days, if the term is not different by virtue of a provision within these present statutes.
2- The General Assemblies may only function if first convened in the presence of the absolute majority of the members who have the right to vote; when such a presence is lacking, an additional half an hour after the supposed time is given when which the Assembly is to be convened if the members present convening so determine.

Article 54

1 - The bureau of the General Assembly is composed of the following members:
   a) President;
   b) Vice-President;
   c) Three Secretaries.
2- The President of the Bureau of the General Assembly ought to have, in the minimum, twenty years of uninterrupted subscription as a member.

Article 55

1 - The President of the Bureau of the General Assembly is the entity more representative of the Club and has the following attributes:
   a) Convene the General Assembly and indicate the work thereof;
   b) Proclaim elected members and the respective offices, according to the proclamation, which he will sign;
   c) Practice all of the other acts that fall within his jurisdiction in statutory and legal terms.
2- The President shall be substituted in his absence or impediment, by the Vice-President; in the absence or impediment of this office, the remaining members of the Bureau, in the order in which they where listed when elected take the place; in the absence or impediment of all, it may be that the President is Substituted for the President of the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council or for whom someone that will represent such office.

Section III - The Board